Jean-Pierre Kalile

Jean-Pierre Kalile (17 June 1939-2 August 1984) was a Major-General of the Lebanese Army who was assassinated during the Lebanese Civil War.

Biography
Jean-Pierre Kalile was born on 17 June 1939 to an upper-class Maronite family in Beirut, Lebanon. Kalile was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Lebanese Army in 1960, and he served in the conflicts with the Palestinian fedayeen units in the country during the late 1960s and the 1970s. Kalile was given command of the 15th Infantry Division during the Lebanese Civil War, and he fought against both Syria and Israel. On 2 August 1984, he was killed by suicide bomber Sadiq Sesay, an Islamic Jihad Organization member who carried out the murder on the orders of the Syrian Arab Republic.